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Windows 7: BSOD playing various steam games.

Hello
Recently I have been receiving a periodic BSOD on my computer. During game play, the window will become clear and minimise. The game will not recover and the event log shows the following error : "Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered." The computer continues to function until a game starts. For some games it BSODs on launch, others it happens once it loads a level. I have tried a clean install and driver updates. This does not happen every time, and in some games (such as CS:GO) disabling multi core rendering seems to avoid this issue. Hopefully someone can give me a hand with this.
Thanks in advance.
Bax7er

As you can see, it needs updating. I am going to give you some suggestions of how to get a clean install of the driver and not use a lot of the stuff they include with them which can conflict with other drivers.

I am going to give you some links that will help you get a good clean install and not have any drivers you don't need that will conflict with other drivers. Download a WHQL driver from Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7 . Once you have them downloaded, uninstall you current driver from control panel. next clean up any left over drivers from following this tutorial Drivers - Clean Left over Files after Uninstalling and select only ATI Display Drivers. After you have done that and rebooted, install the new driver, only select custom install and install only what you have to. Very few people need most of what they include. You do not need the audio/HDMI drivers as you already have that in your Motherboard drivers. Unless there is some reason you need them, the only thing you really need is the Display Driver.

I would also monitor my CPU and GPU temps at all times, especially during gaming.

I also noticed an excessive number of Windows Errors with Bulls and Cows.exe. I would check and see if there are any solutions to it and maybe reinstall the program. Otherwise it really needs to go if it can't be fixed.

Hello again.
Just took the steps you recommended with the video card drivers. Device manager is still listing the Driver date as November 2014. The driver version is showing as 14.501.1003.0, the same as the latest version available from AMD.
I've kept an eye on the temperatures. CPU seems to hold steady at around the high 40s and GPU in the 70s. I did load up the Cryengine sdk to put it under extremely heavy load. GPU capped off at the low 80s with 100% utilisation and fans running flat out. I left it under load for a while without a BSOD. Due to the intermittent nature of the BSOD during gaming it'll take some time before I can say if its still happening or not.

Ok, so i've been looking at temperatures. GPU always seem between acceptable limits, its my CPU that seems to be getting hot. Hits about 67 degress just before I blue screen. Would it be wise to upgrade from my stock heatsink and try and keep the load off the cpu?

Just one word of warning. Check the dimensions to make sure it will fit in your case and over your ram. The dimensions are 116X51X159 mm.

If your CPU is getting hot enough to shut your computer down, I suggest you not use it until you find a way to keep it cooler. No matter what cooler you have, it is important that if you have places in your case to put intake fans, do it. Blowing cooler air inside you case, can help a lot. No matter what cooler you get, it will use the air inside your case to cool the CPU. If that is hot air, it cannot do it's job. The cooler you can keep the inside of your case, the better off you will be. Make sure your current cooler is secure on the CPU. You should not be able to move it by hand with very moderate pressure. If your cooler is secure, open the side of the case and find a house fan and point it directly inside your case and see if that helps. I suspect it will help a lot.

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Thank you very much!
PS
I have monitored my temps (using CAM and hwmonitor) for a long time, I haven't had any of my internals overheat.

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